Today in the conservation lab…I’m evaluating books from our circulating collection, to determine if we should have them withdrawn or order replacements. These are books that, for some reason, cannot be easily or efficiently repaired. Many of them are brittle, but others are missing many of their pages due to vandalism, or cannot be rebound […]
I’m weeding my office today, and finally tackled the three filing cabinets in the conservation lab that are just chock full of outdated and useless files. It’s been very cathartic, throwing things in the recycling bin.. but the absolute highlight of today was throwing away a 3 INCH THICK stack of files that were just […]
Weeding the conservation lab’s own research library, and these VHS tapes are getting scrutinized (by me) for their usefulness to future lab inhabitants. So far I’ve been able to find a DVD version available of “Into the Future”, which is also a great example of the 90′s era of internet optimism. As for the others, I […]